Birthday SALE

For today only, use the coupon code, BIRTHDAY for a 25% discount on each and every soap in the Etsy shop.

Hurry! Special coupon expires at midnight, March 12, CST.

Thank you ALL for being YOU!

Smell the Roses

Image Courtesy of BAC Photography & Design

Ready for Spring?

There are a few floral soaps in the shop - nothing cloying, or overly sweet. 

Below are a few suggestions for those of you who are anxious for spring!

Cherry Blossom Butter Cream

Love Letter

Magick Shea

All three of the above soaps contain varying amounts of superior grade clays, which make them wonderful for shaving or a bit of extra cleansing when skin turns 'combination' in response to environmental changes.

There is only one bar of Cherry Blossom Butter Cream left in stock. Pure sweet cherry blossoms, as if all the tress were blooming at once, folded into our signature organic coconut cream and cocoa butter recipe.

Love Letter is a mysterious fragrance blend of white rose, smoke, dust and incense. This soap is created with our vegetable oil recipe, enhanced with organic, raw shea butter, and gilded with gold mica - just like those memories.

Magick Shea is a perennial favorite with any one who smells it - man or woman! Gorgeous blend of bourbon geranium, French lavender, blood orange and black patchouli essential oils create an extremely well-balanced scent. This scent is wrapped into our raw, organic shea butter recipe and topped with a generous amount of Red Reef Aussie Clay. As though there are two bars in one soap, Magick is bewitching.

Pure Castile!!

True castile soap is an every day luxury. 

Angelic's Pure Castile soap has been aged for a year, but will get even better with more age! 

Pure castile is nothing but high quality, saponified extra virgin olive oil - no scent or added color. 

The result? A hard, creamy white bar that is bubbly and mild.

Some say that castile is the most elegant of soap.

Find out why! 

Now on sale in the soap shop!

Pure Castile

New Vanilla Soaps in the Shop

Lavender Vanilla Shea

Cinnamon Sugar Shea

Tahitian Vanilla Shea

Starry Night Shea

Calendula (Marigold) Soap

There is a good reason that many soapmakers create a type of calendula (marigold) soap. Calendula is extremely soothing to the skin and can be found in many skin products. An age-old remedy for wind burn and chafing, calendula is considered an herbal additive in soap.

What makes Angelic Soap's "Calendula Petals" soap different than most of the other soap and products on the market is the addition of homeopathic calendula tincture (non-alcoholic), as well as an herbal infusion.

Calendula Petals

The prized homeopathic calendula is very potent indeed. I was employed by a homeopathic manufacturer and took classes in homeopathy, so I have kept a jar of calendula ointment, as well as a liquid tincture in  my medicine chest for many years.

Calendula is a miracle worker for healing cuts, abrasions, diaper rash, burns and all manner of skin assaults. 

Caution should be exercised with homeopathic salve or cream. It is not to be used on open wounds. Homeopathic calendula may actually heal the upper layers of skin so quickly that debris or infection can be trapped under the superficial wound. I use the homeopathic salve after the initial injury shows signs of no longer being 'open'. If the wound is superficial, calendula can be used immediately.

If you have delicate skin that is subjected to windy conditions or perhaps has endured abrasion (an overly zealous scrub, microdermabrasion, exfoliation, men's shaving or harsh treatment), give Angelic Soap's "Calendula Petals" a trial. 

This gentle, yet fortified cleanser is kind to all skin - from facial skin to an infant's bottom.

An Abbreviated Tutorial

Yesterday, I made a double batch of Vata Shea Ayurvedic soap (one of my best sellers).

I thought that I would also whip up a pure castile, which is one of the world's true luxury soaps - nothing but virgin olive oil, distilled water and sodium hydroxide.

The Vata went beautifully! It was a good soaping day! The Vata takes a little longer to trace and a bit more time to cure than soaps that do not have as many rich oils and butters. Vata has raw shea butter, jojoba, avocado, almond oils plus other goodies that make it so skin-loving.

Well - the Vata was nothing compared to the castile. 45 minutes to trace - and one year to fully cure.

Good, true soap making is a lot like wine .... it requires a chemist's mind, an artist's creativity and a perfumer's nose. Oh, yes, and patience.

For those of you who do not fully understand some of the soap terms (and why would you?) - here is a quick, no frills tutorial for cold process soap making:

Fats, oils and butters are carefully selected and weighed with precision according to your recipe. This mixture is heated to a specific temperature.

Sodium Hydroxide and cold distilled water are also weighed, then combined. This mixture of lye water heats up and then cools. When the lye water approximately reaches the same temp as the oils, both are combined, beat (stirred) continuously until the batter reaches "trace". 

"Trace" is a state of emulsification (or saponification). The common term 'trace' comes from the batter leaving marks, or "traces".

Colors, additives and fragrances may be added along the way. (You can see this can be tricky)

The lot gets poured into molds, covered and/or insulated (or maybe not!). 

Typically, after 24-48 hours, the soap can be unmolded, sliced and left to air dry for about 4 weeks (minimum). During this "curing" period, the water evaporates from the soap and the ph values change. This period cannot be rushed!

I love soap making because of the changes that naturally occur. Soap making always surprises me! 

And, yes, I have had to use the trash can for more than one spoiled batch! Seems that these bad soaping days occur mainly in summer.

Please do not try this at home unless you have help or know what you are doing! 

Sweetheart Soaps

I have been working very hard to replenish stock sold during the Holidays. 

To not feel like a one-woman assembly line, I have concocted three new romantic soaps that coincide nicely with Valentine's Day. All three of these bars are Limited Editions.

I am pleased with these new creations and they are a bit more lavishly scented than my 'regular' line.

Grimoire (Book of Shadows)

Love Letter

Champagne Blanc Shea

Grimoire features Dragons' Blood resin, myrrh, incense, blood orange. All in all, a rather exotic "red resin" soap. Good for men and women. Fortified with clay for a little slip if used as a shaving soap. Gilded on top to look ancient.

Love Letter - dust, woodsmoke, white rose, resins and incense. A mysterious creation intended to evoke a yellowed, old note that was found in a dusty album, just next to a pressed flower. This soap is also filled with French Pink clay for shaving and gilded.

Champagne Blanc Shea - this was a surprise! This soap actually does have some bubbly olfactory notes. A beautiful bergamot is the star here, coupled with ozone and lemon-lime, this soap has an effervescence. Creamy white and sprinkled with gold. This soap whispers of possibilities.